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Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operations in the 9/11 World
Steerforth
January 2005
624 pages ISBN: 1586420836 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political
The war on terrorism and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
have led to a secrecy explosion. In the 9/11 world the U.S.
military and intelligence organizations have created secret
plans, programs, and operations at a frenzied pace, each
with their own code name. In a perfect world, all of this
secrecy would be to protect legitimate secrets from prying
foreign eyes. But in researching Code Names, defense analyst
William M. Arkin learned that while most genuine secrets
remain secret, other activities labeled as secret are either
questionable or remain perfectly in the open. The sheer
volume and complexity of these operations ensures that the
most politically important remain unreported by the press
and shielded from the scrutiny of the American electorate.
Despite the intelligence failures of 9/11 and the
questionable assumptions that led to the war in Iraq and
govern the war on terrorism, the U.S. government argues for
massive amounts of funding and resources, while at the same
time claiming that public accountability would compromise
their missions. Arkin didn�t accept this argument during the
Cold War -- when he published two books that revealed U.S.
nuclear "secrets" and led directly to a healthier public
discussion of a "nuclear warfighting" emerging in the Reagan
era -- and he is challenging it again today.
From
"Able Ally" to "Zodiac Beauchamp," this book identifies more
than 3,000 code names and details the plans and missions for
which they stand. Code Names is divided into five distinct
parts:
Introduction: Will explain to the
American public, for the first time, just what the explosion
in the creation of secret code names after 9/11 reveals
about overall strategies in the war on
terror.
Cast of Characters: A brief
description of all relevant federal departments, agencies,
commands, and organizations. For each there is a discussion
of their missions, roles, and activities, their contingency
plans and their secret bases of operations. The emphasis is
on what is not readily known to the
public.
Country-by-Country Directory: Details
worldwide U.S. military and intelligence operations and
relations and briefly describes each country�s recent
cooperation or discord with the United States in the war on
terror.
The Code Names Dictionary: An
alphabetical listing of more than 3,000 code names. The
emphasis will be on names that are current since the end of
the Cold War, are of historical importance, and are not
otherwise in the public domain.
Acronym List and
Glossary.
Code Names offers stunning revelations
and its publication is sure to cause a major stir. But Arkin
knows where to draw the line. The information in his book
will not jeopardize individuals or operations. His intention
is to inform the debate and to give people information they
ought to have. Arkin has written Code Names firm in the
belief that an informed citizenry is a prerequisite to wise
decision-making by world leaders.
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